Diabetes
Most people don’t even know they are diabetic or on way to becoming one until it is too late (in Malaysia diabetes cases have doubled over the last 10 yrs). One easy indication – if you have borderline sugar level, borderline high blood pressure and if your waistline 35 in or more for men and 30 in for women you have metabolic syndrome (syndrome X) or pre-diabetic condition. Or simply divide your triglyceride level by the HDL level and if the ratio is greater than 2 you have early signs of insulin resistance. Even though diabetes itself is a big enough problem, the other bigger problem is that diabetes inevitably leads to cardiovascular, kidney, liver and eye diseases. 4 out of 5 diabetic patients eventually will die – not from diabetes itself, but from cardiovascular disease (stroke, heart attack, or peripheral vascular disease). Diabetes is also the leading cause of amputations and blindness
If you suspect you have pre-diabetic condition or are currently taking drugs to lower your blood sugar level you may want to know how to reverse the condition by taking 3 simple steps.
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November 15th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
A chronic condition that affects nearly three million American children and adults, Type 1 diabetes is more severe than Type 2. Type 1 diabetes, also called autoimmune diabetes, arises when the body’s infection-fighting white blood cells start destroying the beta-cells